YouTube.
There's more than a few channels that upload every episode almost immediately and you can pull the video via a download site by pasting in the URL if you want to archive them.
Some shows like Taskmaster just straight up upload their own shows as well.
I realize now how much WILTY, 8 Out of Cats Does Countdown, and Taskmaster bits I've watched on YT without ever the thought to download and archive them on my Plex server 🤦
If you want to automate that a bit, set up https://github.com/meeb/tubesync.
It’ll watch any YouTube playlists you specify (I created one called “Save to Plex”) and automatically download them and import them into Plex. Adding videos is as easy as sticking them into your playlist from whatever YouTube client you use.
Yeah I just plugged some of those playlists into JDownloader and got a shitload of stuff pretty easy
Off the seven seas? Try Britbox. Relatively affordable, no ads whatsoever. They’ve got Cats does Countdown, QI, Mock the Week etc.
Keep this quiet, but VPN to UK and sign up for channel 4. They have commercials, but UK does much funnier commercials than across the pond.
As much as I don't like recommending people go to reddit, tbh r/panelshow and r/tv_bunny tend to cover most of it pretty well, and quickly too. TV Bunny has been a good source for old British sitcoms like Bottom and Blackadder as well.
Bottom is on archive and Blackadder is on every torrent tracker.
VPN to Australia and sign up for ABC iView for free
Specifically, Nevermind the Buzzcocks. There's only a handful of episodes left on youtube, and the rest of them have been replaced with horribly edited down clips from BBC.
bbc has a number of them on bbc sounds for free
